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{{quote|It is thanks to him that not a day goes by when someone, somewhere does not come up to me, taps me on the shoulder and says, "[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off
John Hughes (1950-2009) was an American filmmaker best known for the teen comedies he wrote and directed in the mid 1980s: ''[[Sixteen Candles]]'', ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'', ''[[Weird Science (
He started as a writer for National Lampoon Magazine, and was one of the key developers of ''Delta House'', the TV spinoff of ''[[Animal House]]''. His first big successes as a screenwriter (the year before ''Sixteen Candles'') were ''[[National Lampoon's Vacation]]'' and ''Mr. Mom''. After ''Ferris Bueller'', he directed ''[[Planes, Trains and Automobiles]]'', ''She's Having a Baby'', ''[[Uncle Buck]]'', and ''[[Curly Sue]]'', and wrote and produced ''[[
During the 1990s, he somehow ended up writing and producing a string of more family-oriented comedies, including the live-action versions of ''[[101 Dalmatians (
* ''[[Sixteen Candles]]'' (1984)
* ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Weird Science (
* ''[[Ferris Bueller's
* ''[[Planes, Trains and Automobiles]]'' (1987)
* ''She's Having
* ''[[Uncle Buck]]'' (1989)
* ''[[Curly Sue]]'' (1991) - this was his final film as a director.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]
** In a couple of his movies, the bad guys are people who take "just doing their job" too far.
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* [[Monochrome Casting]]: Virtually none of his movies had a non-white lead.
* [[The Stinger]]
* [[The Verse]]: In a 1999 ''Premiere'' [http://home.comcast.net/~aimsters4/bclub.html article], Hughes himself declared that ''[[Sixteen Candles]]'', ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'', ''[[Ferris Bueller's
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** It's long been speculated that ''[[
** ''[[Weird Science (
** ''She's Having A Baby'' does
* [[The Windy City]]: The suburbs of Chicago, actually.
* [[Artist Disillusionment]]: Hughes left the Hollywood scene out of fear that it would have a negative impact on his kids. Plus, he felt that the film industry overworked his friend John Candy to the point that it killed the actor.
* [[Reclusive Artist]]
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